Laundry-basket.



No. 670,848. Patented Marl 26, I90l.

J. E. CUTCLIFF.

LAUNDRY BASKET.

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UNiT D STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES E. CUTCLIFF, OF READING, MASSACHUSETTS.

LAUNDRY-BASKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 670,848, dated March 26, 1901.

m Application filed March 23, 1900. Serial No. 9,849. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES E. CUTCLIFF, of Reading, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Laundry-Baskets; and Ido hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, that will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had tothe ac companying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

The same letters of reference thereon are used to indicate corresponding parts.

After describing my invention, its nature, and its uses I shall finally define and limit it more precisely in the claim hereto appended.

The object of my invention is to provide a more con enient and a more substantial laundry-basket for household use and one better adapted to receive and protect the clean clothes when taken from the line and also after the clothes are ironed. My i in proved laun dry-basket is also especially adapted by its double bottom to protect the clean clothes from too close proximity to the ground.

A special feature is the two receptacles or pockets for holding the clothes-pins, which are located on either side of the circular or inner basket. It has long been a special desideratum to provide a place for holding the clothes pins separate and apart from the clothes. My invention provides the most convenient and durable laundry-basket for that purpose. It consists of the usual circular clothes-basket nested within another basket whose longitudinal diameter is greater than the diameter of the circular clothes-basket, but whose lateral diameter is only sufficient to receive the circular clothes-basket. These two baskets thus nested are rigidly fastened together at the bottom and at the sides by rivets or by any other convenient mode of fastening.

When the clothes have been washed and are ready to be hung on the line, they are placed in the circular basket B and the clothespins are placed in the pockets 1) b. The basket is then taken to the clothes-line where they are to be hung. The clothes-pins are then convenient and accessible when required to fasten the clothes on the line. This saves time and trouble when both pins and clothes are in the same basket, as is usually the case, and are thus often intermixed, or sometimes the pins are placed in a separate basket, thus requiring two baskets instead of a single basket, as shown by my invention. t

Having thus described my invention and explained its uses, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isj

A laundry-basket constructed substantially as herein described and consisting of a circular basket A nested within the elliptical basket B, so arranged as to provide the receptacles, b, b, for clothes-pins, the inner or circular basket being rigidly fastened to the outer or elliptical basket B at the bottom and sides by rivets substantially as shown and described and for the purposes herein set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto'set my hand this 14th day of March, A. D. 1900.

JAMES E. CUTOLIFF. In presence of- JOHN 1W1. PERKINS, JAMES J. GILL. 

